Credentials
Our license, bond and insurance — and how to check them yourself
Every field below comes from Washington's public contractor record. We publish the whole record, plus the link to the state's copy of it, because a number you can verify beats a badge you cannot.
- WA L&I #BELLIHC808NM Active registration — verify it with the state
- $30,000 bonded Surety bond on file with L&I
- $1,000,000 insured General liability coverage
- Local since 2020 Owner-operated in Whatcom County
- We pull the permit City of Bellingham or Whatcom County, and we meet the inspector
The record
- License number
- BELLIHC808NM The number to type into the state verification tool.
- License type
- Washington State registered General Construction Contractor A general contractor registration covers mechanical work such as heat pump and mini split installation.
- Status
- Active As published by WA L&I.
- Effective date
- September 14, 2020
- Expiration date
- November 7, 2026 Registrations renew. If you are reading this after that date, check the state record — it is authoritative, this page is only a copy of it.
- UBI number
- 604538155 Washington's Unified Business Identifier. It ties the L&I registration, the Secretary of State filing and the Department of Revenue account to one business.
- Entity type
- Limited Liability Company
- Surety bond
- $30,000 — American Contractors Indemnity Company Amount and surety only. Bond numbers are not published on this site.
- General liability insurance
- $1,000,000 — State National Insurance Company Amount and carrier only. Policy numbers are not published on this site.
Do not take our word for any of it
This link opens the Department of Labor & Industries' own record for UBI 604538155, license BELLIHC808NM. It shows the same status, dates, bond and insurance — plus any lawsuits or infractions filed against the registration.
Verify BELLIHC808NM at WA L&I →What each of these actually protects you against
Contractors quote "licensed, bonded and insured" as one phrase. They are three separate things and they cover three different problems.
Registration with L&I
Washington does not issue a general "contractor's license" exam the way some states do. It requires contractors to register: to name the business and its owners, carry a surety bond, carry general liability insurance, and keep it all current. Hiring an unregistered contractor is where homeowners lose the most — an unregistered contractor has no bond to claim against, and using one can undercut your own recourse. Registration is also what lets a contractor legally pull the mechanical permit for your heat pump.
The $30,000 surety bond
A bond is not insurance for us. It is a pot of money a court can order paid to you if we take your deposit and disappear, breach the contract, or fail to pay a supplier or subcontractor whose lien then lands on your house. You establish the claim in court and the surety pays up to the bond amount. It is capped and shared among claimants, which is why the amount is worth knowing.
The $1,000,000 general liability policy
This is the one that matters if something physical goes wrong: a lineset penetration that leaks into your wall, a dropped condenser on your driveway, water damage from a failed water heater connection. Liability coverage pays for damage we cause to your property. It is not a warranty on the equipment, and it is not workers' compensation — ask any contractor about those separately.
How to check any contractor in Washington, in about a minute
- Open L&I's Verify a Contractor tool .
- Search the business name, the license number, or the UBI.
- Read four things: registration status, how long the registration has existed, whether the bond and insurance are current, and the lawsuits and infractions section.
- Make sure the name on the record is the name on your bid. A bid written by a different entity than the registered one is a problem, not a formality.
Do this to us and do it to everyone else you get a quote from. It is public, free, and it filters out most of what goes wrong on a residential HVAC job.
What we are not licensed to do
We hold a Washington general contractor registration. We do not hold a Washington electrical contractor licence or a Washington plumbing contractor licence, and you can confirm that from the same public record linked above — it lists every licence a UBI holds.
In practice that means: on our jobs, the electrical work — a new circuit for a heat pump, a disconnect, a subpanel or a service upgrade — is performed by a licensed electrical contractor, permitted and inspected as electrical work. Plumbing that requires a plumbing licence is handled the same way. That is normal for a mechanical contractor, and worth stating plainly rather than leaving you to assume otherwise.
The practical consequence for your quote: electrical scope is a real, separate line item. When a mini split special is advertised at around $2,200 with "electrical not included," the electrical is the part that moves — especially in an older Bellingham house with a full 100-amp panel. Our written quote states which parts we perform and which parts a licensed electrical contractor performs.
Refrigerant handling: what the law requires, and what to ask
Heat pumps, mini splits and refrigeration equipment run on refrigerants regulated under the Clean Air Act. Under EPA Section 608, technicians who maintain, service, repair or dispose of equipment that could release regulated refrigerant into the atmosphere must hold an EPA Section 608 technician certification. The certification comes in types — Type I for small appliances, Type II for high-pressure systems, Type III for low-pressure, and Universal for all three — and it does not expire. Buying certain refrigerants also requires certification.
That is federal law, not a marketing badge, and it applies to every company that opens a refrigerant circuit in your house. So it is a fair question to ask any contractor bidding your job — including us:
- Which Section 608 certification type does the technician doing my install hold?
- Who recovers the refrigerant from my old system, and where does it go?
- What is your evacuation and charge verification procedure — do you pull a micron gauge vacuum and record superheat and subcooling on commissioning?
Ask for the answer in writing if it matters to you. A contractor who cannot answer the third question is the reason so many heat pumps underperform their rating.
Source: EPA — Section 608 Technician Certification Requirements . We describe the requirement here because homeowners should know it exists; this section is not a statement about any individual's certificate.
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